re: It’s really sad to see what our country is….

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From day one it’s been a power struggle between the haves and the have nots

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You realize that that is exactly what Karl Marx based his entire philosophy on, yeah?

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You didn’t read that sentence right….

The power struggle is ONLY between the haves…..

The have nots have no say.

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O.k., but why do the have-nots have no say?

And in America, the have-nots become the haves. Only 20% of millionaires in the US inherited their money. 80% are self-made.

Probably because we elect people that stop caring about the folks that elected them.

Tell me something about this country that works for the common good….

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The left will argue based strictly on population, but those urban areas have a very different culture than the majority of geography that makes up the country

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Who's the a-hole who downvotes this painfully evident truth?

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Vance is gonna get the same treatment. And not by just Democrats.

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I agree with what you are saying. However, I would argue semantics. If you are fighting against Trump or Vance then you aren't really a Republican.

Is a traitor actually a member of your team? I would label Cassidy for example as an infiltrator. He was a dim his entire life. Then was sent to Louisiana to infiltrate the repbulican party. They hold zero loyalty to conservative beliefs.

No you, but some idiots would argue that these people just don't support everything and vote against some things conservative. They don't realize that they vote that way ONLY to fool us into thinking they are conservative.

Their game plan has always been to control all of the dim party and all of the republican party.

So a communist party (dims) member infiltrating the republican party is still a communist and not on our team and not a republican in any way.

What is your definition of a Marxist and Marxism, without relying on google or AI?

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Probably because we elect people that stop caring about the folks that elected them.

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Then why don't we immediately vote them out? if that happened a few election cycles, they'd start being responsive, wouldn't they?

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Tell me something about this country that works for the common good

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Well, let's see. 150 years ago more people spent more of their time working and more of the work was significantly more physically laborious, which also means free time was a lot less plentiful, people had less access to quality health care, there was no such thing as health insurance (not for the average person, anyway), most people had to make their own clothes, almost nobody had running water or electricity, air conditioning hadn't been invented yet so nobody at all had that, labor laws hadn't been enacted yet, so children and adults both worked super long hours in factories under unsafe, unsanitary, and oppressive conditions, many people did not have access to education, people in cities would live with entire families in one room tenement apartments under unsafe and unsanitary conditions, transportation was slow and for many people meant simply walking or riding a horse...I could go on, but you get the idea.

Now even among American citizens we consider poor, 97% have televisions, over 70% have air conditioning, 92% have microwave ovens, the average poor household in America has more living space than the average (non-poor) European household, and has 1 car, 2 t.v.s, air conditioning, cable and a DVD player (this study was done before streaming replaced cable and dvd rental), and does not lack adequate access to food and medical care.

In other words, our poor people today live better than rich people did 150 years ago, and that is in largest part due to the environment that this country created to allow for upward mobility, innovation, and the ability to participate in the free market. I'd say that qualifies as something about this country that works for the common good.

I've been pointing this out to you populists for forever. Do a few rich people end up running things? For sure, but that's of no consequence because they always have. For the actual entirety of human history that's been the case.

Maybe in some times and places it was the clergy that had the power, sometimes it was a royal family, sometimes it was the military, sometimes it was a dictator, etc., etc., etc.

But we live in a time and in a place that has tolerated LESS of that type of oppression and allowed MORE freedom and participation than any society before us in history.

Y'all populist victims are like NBA players who sit around complaining that one guy got $55 million a year while you only got $38 million when the average American barely makes $40,000 and the average person on the planet makes $18,000.

None of that means that people shouldn't look at those in charge and hold them accountable to whatever degree you want.

But acting like we live in hell in the US is not only absurd, it's frankly highly arrogant and ungrateful. We literally have the highest standard of living that the world has ever known, and the deliberately created environment of the US is the single largest factor that went into creating that standard of living.

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I'll admit it. I Googled.

My man, I enjoyed your reply. Very much.

But….

It’s like on the Rant when people say, “hey, we’re winning 10 games a year!” and the response is “With all this talent and resources, we should be winning championships!”

The US has so much waste and corruption that those facts and numbers you speak of should be through the roof!

Yes, we have it good…..relatively. But do you ever look at what we could be without the greed and defiance and shear hate. We shouldn’t be in debt. We should have amazing healthcare. People should put their heads on the pillow at night and peacefully know things are good because not only do they bust their arse, but people actually care that they do.